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Hamas leader accuses west of hypocrisy over threat to withhold cash
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Mar 08, 2006 11:23pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Mar 08, 2006 11:00pm |
| Description | The new Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, has accused the US and Europe of hypocrisy in threatening to slash aid to the occupied territories unless Hamas meets western demands, while failing to hold Israel to a similar standard.
Hamas leaders describe pressure to recognise Israel, respect accords and renounce violence as "cheap blackmail" aimed at corralling them into a "peace process" they describe as a trap. Mr Haniyeh said that Israel had been allowed to repudiate peace accords and to lay the ground to unilaterally redraw its borders, without sanction from foreign powers.
"They are not asking anything of Israel, that they recognise the 1967 borders or even the choice of the Palestinian people [in January's election]. They should be making the same demands of them that they make of us. There is a double standard," Mr Haniyeh told the Guardian. |
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